How PS5 And Xbox Series X Backward Compatibility Load Times Compare

Welp, the patch updates can only make em faster! Until then, we can still eat between load times! 🤣✌

If my PC took as long as these two junk boxes to load games, I’d quit gaming altogether

I am still searching the interwebs for the article that compares load times of last gen's top consoles and this next gen on Valhalla, Cold War, and Destiny, among others.

I can piece together the Destiny info, but why not have it in once place?

Ultimately, I'm already committed. My Xbox Series X is on a delivery truck right now, and I can wait until Horizon is released (next Christmas) for the PS5. With the ability to play pretty much all the current gen games on this machine as new titles filter out, it will truly be an awesome year of gaming until then.

LOL, after all Sony's hard talk about the PS5's storage speed, the XSX beat it 9 out of 10 tests. And a lot of those wins weren't even close.

One thing to consider is that while all Xboxes run (essentially) the same OS, PlayStations don't. So the PS5's delay is probably due to some kind of emulation, VM, or whatever compatibility mechanism Sony uses taking time to load. It's still a pretty bad result regardless, based on Sony's promo claims and the PS5 SSD's speed specs.

Not only is the XSX faster in almost all of those cases, it wipes the floor with the PS5 in many cases. With all the noise Sony has been making about PS5 load times, this is really hilarious.

These were timed from basically inserting the disc, through all the bs screens, not loading a save. That's not even taking into account the Xbox's quick launch feature.

It blew my mind how Xbox was almost a whole minute faster in one of those games.

Regardless, I'm holding off on any next gen systems until A) There's games, and B) It seems Sony may have rushed this console a bit and needs some software updates.

Still wondering if Sony will patch in VRR at some point, as many newer tv's are incorporating this feature.

Dafuq, next gens loadingtimes is shittier than those on my pc from 2016.

Is this an out of season april fools joke?

I thought we could expect loading times that were less than a second. My toaster loads faster than these machines.

Well it's kind of always been a thing, for a while anyway, that the xb would optimize older games better. So I would have to see next-gen first.

So the PS5 video games loads into cache then to RAM then to the CPU/GPU? Couldn’t Sony have just added faster RAM and more processing power?

What exactly makes the PS5 SSD and controller so special?

Where is my profile pic little pixel guy from?

When you have Sony advertising for over 8 months their "ultra fast SSD" only for everyone to find out through comparisons with Series X/S that in fact is not as fast as everyone expected it to be then it raises the question "what was that Sony talk all about?"

Sony needs to PUT UP OR SHUT UP

Ha ha ha

It's funny to see people making excuses that this super fast SSD isn't able to be as fast as the Xbox because they aren't optimized for m.2?

It makes a large memory request, it fetches it and load done. PCs prove this type of idea is stupid.

The kinds of optimizations that will be done will be around texture streaming. That's realtime as your playing. Not a massive preload.

This is just poor design on the FSB interface with that SSD.

This really doesn’t meant much. I will wait until these games are optimized for next gen. Then we can see how they will load. All this shows me is what I already know, the XSX has more power. If you want to get an idea maybe look at AC Valhalla. As it’s one of the first games to also take advantage of next gen.